Where does all that aid money go? Haiti’s still without safe housing for most people.

How to shop for groceries when you hate shopping for groceries. (Step One: Realize that your problem is not really a problem. After all, you could be living in a tent in an earthquake-ravaged country.)

Coffee shop bans people from talking about annoying hipster stuff like denim, left-handedness and anything that happened before 2000.

Squirrels are coming. In 2012, expect your bars to be named after them, your bands to use them on fliers and album covers, your coffee cups, T shirts and lighters to display them. Expect twentysomethings and early thirtysomethings to wear them on necklaces and earrings. Someone, somewhere, will get a squirrel tattoo.

TWEEt.

Owls dominated 2011.

If you cross a unicorn with a frosty treat, do you get a unicornicle?

Before that, it was birds, generally. Any species was acceptable, but ravens, mockingbirds and bluebirds were big.

A member of Animal Collective, (which never sounded better than as the soundtrack to some serious porn in Shortbus).

2009 saw the rise of the unicorn.

I hear Kmart sells these T shirts now, which should launch the trend’s postmortem.

Panda bears also had a brief heyday, preceded by a long bout of wolves.

I am the future.

After much profound consideration, my intuition tells me that post-squirrel 2013 will be the year of the whale. Blue whales, more specifically.